{"id":49524,"date":"2010-11-24T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/11\/24\/lebanese-armenians-protest-turkish-pms-beirut-visit\/"},"modified":"2010-11-24T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:54:00","slug":"lebanese-armenians-protest-turkish-pms-beirut-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/11\/24\/lebanese-armenians-protest-turkish-pms-beirut-visit.html","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese-Armenians Protest Turkish PM&#8217;s Beirut Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">More than 100 members of Lebanon&#8217;s Armenian community gathered outside Beirut&#8217;s international airport on Wednesday to protest a two-day official visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u011f<\/span>an, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The demonstrators stood amid tight security outside the main entrance of the airport, hoisting banners that read &#8220;The Lebanese have not forgotten Turkey&#8217;s bloody history in the region&#8221; and &#8220;Erdo<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u011f<\/span>an should bow before our martyrs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s Turkey is yesterday&#8217;s Turkey: malicious, oppressive and an ally of the enemy,&#8221; or Israel, read another banner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">An AFP correspondent said police, army and SWAT teams were on hand to control the crowd, which had amassed across the street from a rival gathering of more than 100 Lebanese students who waved banners welcoming Erdo<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u011f<\/span>an.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 members of Lebanon&#8217;s Armenian community gathered&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[19188,10427,19187,11393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}